Whoever the f*** chose to have a foundation of this country be the “interpretation” of a quarter-millennium old document is ridiculous

A four page long compromisary document meant as a stopgap solution to colonizers fighting over trade is being treated as a dogmatic religious object it’s insane

thats basically every country

Thats the legal system since babylon playa...of course the legal system will just reflect whatever class is in power and which ideas are en vogue amongst them. The USA is unique tho in how old the constitution is and how literal they take it.

German Empire, Weimar Germany, Nazi Germany, East Germany, West Germany all had the same civil law book (East Germany replaced it later). This should show you how adaptable law is to the power of judges and lawyers

Nazi Germany and Weimar Germany even had the same constitution lol

In many countries the constitution is rly not even that important

In the Netherlands EU law>constitution for example

Also as always shoutout to Cuba

Held 133k assemblies writing the 2019 constitution

783k proposals for amendments

8.9 million Cubans involved in the process

Powerful

ay got a link to sources on their rectification campaigns i just finished reading through the ones that happened in China before the great leap forward and interested in comparing em

You would think when half the states seceded and 4 million slaves were freed that would've been a good time to reevaluate the constitution as a whole but instead they just slapped on a half baked amendment that ALMOST bans slavery and called the job done.

This speech is most relevant to understand the ideological motives behind it. Also kinda DEBOONKS some of the people that say Che was the real communist and Fidel fake bc during this time the government of Cuba spread a compilation of Che's critique of USSR economic policy as well

idcommunism.com/2016/06/fidel-castro-ches-ideas-are-absolutely.html?m=1

For more specifics on the policy:

jstor.org/stable/23599761?seq=13

I’m back w another question;

I’m curious to know how the ML’s itt expect the state to eventually dissolve itself if a vanguard party was to take power

Socialism is a transitional period both in terms of economics and politics. As the economy marches towards communism, the politics will typically follow suit.

There will be less need to control and command the more engrained the socialist culture is. The more educated and conscious the population becomes, the less susceptible they will become to capitalist propaganda and the more they can manage affairs in their own hands. Cuba shows many examples of this democratization-transition.

More and more decisions can be deferred to the people and their committees, the party will eventually just have a guiding role. Economic plans and workplace affairs can be voted upon. Political decisions can be decided in councils filled by sortition (random selection of people, like jury duty in the USA). The vanguard would only be needed as an oversight in the sortition councils and the ones preparing the voting options for the economic plans.

Eventually, the state would just be a mechanism for administration, not a legal power standing over the people, and thus will have withered away.

And when everyone is part of the state and its power, then no one is part of the state, since this distinction becomes meaningless.

The state will be local and will be mundane. It won't even be recognizable as a state anymore.

this gotta be the absolute worst discourse to enter the internet poisoned irony circle in a long time

Thank you for this it really helped me understand.

I’m curious to know more about this “democratization-transition” in Cuba

I'm your guy holup

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How do you do fellow Latinxs

You're welcome Gary "Green River Killer" Ridgway

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no clue what this is in reference to but yeah thank you

this is a lot of reading oh man I ran outta concerta today too

Pray u catch that hyperfocus then eh